Catalyst Romania
catalystromania.com Direct investor
Catalyst Romania is a venture capital firm based in Bucharest, Romania, that provides early growth capital to technology companies in Romania and neighboring CEE countries. It manages two funds, with a focus on expansion-stage investments in sectors like enterprise IT, e-commerce, and platform businesses.
Catalyst Romania is a venture capital firm headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from Series A to growth, in technology, technology enabled services, enterprise IT Applications and services and Infrastructure. Its stated cheque size is Tickets between 1- 3 million EUR. 24 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Catalyst Romania, a leading technology-focused venture capital firm, launched its first EUR 15 million fund in 2012, as the first vehicle of its type designed for Romania and CEE, followed by a second growth capital tech fund with a final closing in February 2022 and a hard cap of EUR 50 million, significantly above target.”
— Catalyst Romania, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Romania, CEE, Eastern Europe
- Sectors
- technology, technology enabled services, Enterprise IT Applications, Services and Infrastructure, Vertical Business Applications, E-commerce and Consumer Marketplaces, Platform Businesses, Media and Communications
- Cheque size
- Tickets between 1- 3 million EUR
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 24 companies
Team, as Catalyst Romania publishes it
- Marius Ghenea Managing Partner
- Alin Stanciu Partner
- Alina Georgescu Investment Director
- Lorena Scheusan Investment Manager
- Adam Gartai Investment Manager
- Alexandra Tudor Marketing & PR Specialist
- Daniel Mereuță Senior Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on catalystromania.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 co-investors found.
- Gecad Ventures 2 shared companies: vectorwatch.com, smartbill.ro
- ChromaWay 1 shared company: archive.org
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: archive.org
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Catalyst Romania publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://catalystromania.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, people, status, confidence
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Record 6951 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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